clone a github repo to a live site but getting: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I'm trying to get my github repo cloned on my live site for the first time.

I pushed my public key out to my dreamhost server's home directory from my local terminal like so:

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh [email protected] 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

This didn't cause any errors and i can see my key on the remote server but when I try to clone a github repo after sshing into my remote server with:

git clone [email protected]:gituser/myrepo.git myserver.com/mysite

I get:

Cloning into mysite...
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I can push files from my local to github just fine (after a day of tweaking ;) ).

How do I clone from github to my remote server (live site)?

Solution

You'll need to push the public key of your remote server to github. If you haven't already generated the key, start at step one, https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys. Otherwise, start from step 4 where it shows you how to add the key to your github account.